Cooking

Teacher’s notes

Level: pre-intermediate
Topic: Cooking
Subject(s): Food
Time (approx): Activity 1: 10 – 15 minutes.
Activity 2: 15 – 30 minutes
Preparation: Activity 1: One photocopy for each student.
Activity 2: One photocopy for each pair/group of students (cut
up as indicated).

Procedure

Activity 1
ƒ Hand out a copy of the text to students.
ƒ Ask students to read through the text and then answer question 1.
ƒ Put students in pairs and get them to check their answers together.
ƒ Ask students to work with their partner and discuss question 2.
ƒ Pair the pairs to make groups of four and get them to discuss their answers.
ƒ Check and discuss as a class.

Answers
1 Different ways of cooking : baking, roasting, boiling and frying
2 Ways of changing the size/shape of ingredients : peel(ing), cut, slice and mash
Other suggestions: 1 steaming, stir frying, deep frying, grilling, poaching
2 dice, grate, chop, whisk, melt, mince

Activity 2
ƒ On the board write up the following ingredients:
6 eggs
1 kilo potatoes
Small onion
Red pepper (optional)
Oil
Salt and pepper
ƒ Ask students what they think you could cook using these ingredients. See if
anyone comes up with Spanish omelette.
ƒ Put students in pairs or small groups.
ƒ Explain that you will give each group the recipe for Spanish omelette, but the
order in which things are done is mixed up. Their task is to put the instructions in
the correct order.
ƒ Cut up and hand out one set of instructions to each pair/group.
ƒ Monitor and help where necessary.
ƒ Check as a class.

Answers
8, 11, 4, 13, 6, 2, 7, 1, 9, 5, 12, 3 and 10

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Follow-up activity: Ask students to think of a recipe and write down the ingredients
and the recipe/instructions.

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Worksheets

Activity 1

Cooking is quite a complex task. When you cook something you don’t just put
it in a pan on the top of a cooker or put in inside the oven. You have to choose
the right ingredients, prepare these ingredients properly and choose the
correct way to cook the dish. For example, take something as basic as a
potato. On its own a potato is rather boring. But you can do lots of different
things with a potato. You can cook it by baking it whole in the oven (without
peeling it or cutting it to start with), roasting it in the oven (this time you peel it
and cut it into smaller pieces), boiling it in hot water in a saucepan on top of
the cooker or frying it in oil. You can slice it into pieces and make it into chips
or even into crisps. And, after boiling potatoes you can mash them up. So,
from something as simple as a potato you can do lots of different things and
this is before you even add extra ingredients like salt and pepper.

1. Read through the text about potatoes. How many words can you find
about:

• different ways of cooking?

• different ways you can change the size or shape of ingredients?

2. Can you add any more words to these two categories?

Activity 2

1. Add salt and pepper to the eggs (to taste).

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2. After a few minutes, drain the potatoes and add them to the frying pan.
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3. After cooking, leave to cool and then put the omelette in the fridge.
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4. Boil the potatoes for about 5 minutes.
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5. Heat a small amount of oil in a frying pan and then pour in the mixture.
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6. Lightly fry the onion and red pepper.
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7. After frying the onion, red pepper and potatoes, mix six eggs together.

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8. Start by peeling about 1 kilo of potatoes.
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9. Put the fried onion, red pepper and potatoes into the eggs and stir well.
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10. Serve cold with some salad.
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11. Slice the potatoes thinly and put the slices into a saucepan with some water.
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12. Slowly fry and turn the omelette over after about five minutes.
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13. While the potatoes boil, chop some onion and red pepper.
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